11Alive #SECPrimary Livestream And GeorgiaPol Open Thread

Tonight 11Alive will be airing a Livestream beginning at 7:00pm. If this thing is working that’s what you should be seeing above. This will be mostly local coverage of the SEC Primary results with the 11Alive News Team, as well as discussion and analysis by Democratic Communications Consultant (and a friend of mine) Liz Flowers and Anchor Jon Shirek.

You get your say in the comments below.

At 10PM coverage will shift to WATL tv 36 (11Alive’s sister station) and then be on the main NBC channel for the regular 11pm news that will feature expanded campaign coverage. At least, that’s the plan. Will join as I can in the comments below from time to time. Y’all don’t do anything too crazy tonight. It’s just the future of our Republic that’s at stake.

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“…little ability to work with those who could/would give them a decent finished product.”

If they could/would…. they should’ve started a long time ago. Year after year it’s more of the same. HOW does Padgett become the face of the GAGOP if they’re looking to include those who aren’t a Pale Stale Male? HOW do we not have even ONE female constitutional officer?

There is a small sliver of hope – a tiny beam of light that shines through the cracks – as Gov Deal talks about not letting the religious freedom bill discriminate against an entire swath of Georgians.

Fox News is anti Trumo in a big way. It’s all about delegates, they say. Well, if you don’t WIN anywhere you ain’t gonna get enough. And some Repubs sniff that ain’t no way they’ll vote for Trump. I wonder if these folks will hold their breath till their faces turn blue?

I had this same thought, but here’s what Larry Sabato had to say about it:

…Oklahoma has a strong though ancient Socialist tradition — Socialist Party presidential candidates routinely did very well there in the early 20th century, including Allan Benson winning 15.5% in the Sooner State in 1916 despite getting just 3.2% nationally (Oklahoma was also frequent Socialist candidate Eugene Debs’ second-best state in 1912).

“I’m looking for a man of faith to stand on the constitution” so says a seemingly drunk Tom Delay on MSNBC. Another old fart GOPer saying primaries don’t matter, ‘it’s up to ‘the party’ and delegates at the convention.’ Can’t wait to see how they screw that up.

Great to hear from another of the old, incoherent crooks who helped lead the party to Trump bitch about the result that is Trump.

The vote couldn’t have been much tighter over here in Oconee County, where Rubio beat Trump by 3 votes out of 7000 cast. Cruz was only 100 votes behind. Carson finished with 7 percent which was 14 more votes than Kasich.

For the donks, Clinton finished a single vote ahead of Sanders. O’Malley with 4 votes and Steinberg with 2 held the balance of power.

The GOP establishment is in a catch 22, the party has never seen turn out like this before with Trump, and it is killing the Dems with their turnout. No way polling companies have this turnout factored correctly in their polling numbers with Trump in a general verse Hillary, because we have never seen anything like this! Polling is based on prior data, and nothing compares.

Yet the establishment cannot control Trump, and he has crossover issues like trade, negotiating drug prices, wall street campaign donations, against policemen of the world foreign policy and supports PP if they stop doing abortions, all of this goes against establishment GOP policy, yet are popular in a general election. All of the above cross over issues have had many Republicans from Ron Paul, John McCain, Rick Santorum, Mike Hackabee, Joe Scarboroug……support at least one of the above policies. If the GOP pounces on Trump the tent will tighten quick. I think many under estimate how much the cross over issues are driving Trump support, especially with a flat over leveraged economy.

………Ryan, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other senior members of the party, must now decide how far they can go in trying to stop Trump — apparently in defiance of their voters’ wishes…………

That is how Reagan won ie Reagan Democrats. As far as Trump being a Democrat or Republican, like many he has issues that go between the parties. The purity test is killing the GOP, you have even said that….BTW I am from the rust belt, and Reagan was very big with working class Dems, cannot win without them.

You can drop the comparison to Reagan. Trump is no Ronald Reagan. Of course I have said the purity test will be the death of the republican party and we are seeing that with the rise of Donald Trump. Conservatives for hire have made money tearing down their own party by using purity tests and making false promises and now people are blinded by the shiny object that is Trump. Trump supporters are blinded from reason because they are all foaming at the mouth mad and they are just plain ignorant of the facts.

Reagan spend decades helping get republicans elected something Trump has not done. Reagan never said “everything is negotiable” like Trump has. Trump has no morals or political beliefs. He just feeds into people’s anger. I’ve had this conversation already. I don’t care to have it again.

A customer (blue collar) told me yesterday they had voted for Trump because they thought he could fix the economy. Of all the candidates, I think Trump is least likely to fix the economy for blue collar workers. Bizarro world.

The only solace I take in coming to grips with the eventuality that our next president will be either Clinton or Trump, is that the country has not ceased to exist under the helm of the current president.

For years the GOP has told us to suck it up and vote for whoever represents them in presidential elections. We as voters did and watched as 5 of the last 6 candidates lost the popular vote. Many of us voted for those candidates even though we were not all that thrilled with their policy ideas.

Now here we are with an outside the party candidate winning 11 of the first 15 states. What does the GOP do? They scramble to get us to vote against the leader because he isn’t part of the inner click funded by all those special interest groups. They can’t control Trump or his supporters so they collectively decide to go on full scale attack against him. Many are even going so far as to say they will vote for the dem in November if Trump wins. My how times have changed!

Time to suck it up RNC. Your turn to take one for the team as you implored voters to do for decades with scare tactics about losing the Supreme Court, government getting bigger and taxes going up (all have happened in spite of our votes). It is our turn now. We have a candidate who has attracted huge turnouts not seen in years if ever. These high turnouts are mainly due to new voters who are not transferable to another candidate so chase them off at your own risk.

If you want to win in November, it is time to get behind Trump and get on with beating Hillary. The more you fight the inevitable, the more likely it becomes.

No where in your post do you talk about supporting what Trump represents. His policy or statements about what he may do in office. You only talk about sticking it to the RNC. You have won. You and Trump have and will stick it to the man. He may even win in November and then your blinders will come off and you will see him for the liberal he is. Again……….. Don’t ever say that no one told you this would happen.

” They scramble to get us to vote against the leader because he isn’t part of the inner click funded by all those special interest groups.”

Bullcrap. The anti-Trumpers don’t care about who he is or isn’t funded by. We want to vote against the leader because he’s a revolting human being who has never shown any real interest in anything other than glorifying his almighty self.

Eiger points out that you don’t talk at all about supporting what Trump represents. Eiger is concerned about Trump the liberal. I’m not even that concerned about that. I mean sure it sucks, but no different that Hillary being in there really. I’m concerned about a man who is not tied totally to reality becoming the nominee or president.

Yep the enemy is us.
GOP leadership : Maybe they will learn something from Hillarys strategies and handle their problem at the convention…..the Don will never see the slack someone got with their preacher proclaiming GD America.